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Insofar
ISBN: PB: 9781936970650, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
80 pp., 24.7x17.7 cm
"Insofar" is a collection of poems dedicated to analogical reasoning, seeking to remember basic terms of relation and proportion. Archival in mood, it works with and against the idea of an A–Z filing system. This alphabet is akin to a damaged rosary...
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£13,00
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Scraping Away
ISBN: PB: 9781933880785, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, April 2020
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this debut, full-length poetry collection, Fred Shaw offers a deep dive into the cost of service work. Scraping Away is a collection of narrative, sometimes elegiac poems that express the point of view of restaurant workers. Shaw considers the cos...
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£13,00
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Angular Desire Selected Poems and Prose
ISBN: PB: 9781784109257, Carcanet, March 2020
220 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The first Western edition of the poetry of the great anglophone poet of postcolonial India, Srinivas Rayaprol.
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£16,99
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Brotherton Prize Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781784109233, Carcanet, March 2020
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
An anthology to celebrate the winner, shortlisted poets and other contributors to the first Brotherton Prize, presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre.
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£12,99
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New Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784109066, Carcanet, March 2020
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A new and thoroughly revised selection of Christina Rossetti's poems, with an introduction from Rachel Mann.
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£12,99
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Little History of Poetry
ISBN: HB: 9780300232226, Yale University Press, March 2020
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.
What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work – over the centuries countless thousands of poems h...
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£14,99
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Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer
ISBN: PB: 9781938769511, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2020
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer", Eric Tran contends with the aftermath of a close friend's suicide while he simultaneously explores the complexities of being a gay man of color. Grief opens into unraveling circles of inquiry as Tran reflects o...
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£14,00
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Raft of Flame
ISBN: PB: 9781632430816, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
A painter and poet, Desiree Alvarez engages with the powerful forces of lyric and rhythm to create a collection that moves across time and place. Inspired by Lorca's passionate cante jondo, or "deep song," and her own family history with Andalusian f...
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£15,00
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Voice Message
ISBN: PB: 9781938769528, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2020
72 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Through the poems of "Voice Message", Katherine Barrett Swett reflects on her personal tragedy and the fragility of human lives and bodies with a tender care. Her debut collection explores the powers of art and poetry to participate in the processing...
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£14,00
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Borderland Apocrypha
ISBN: PB: 9781632430762, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
160 pp., 15.2x22.8 cm, 1 halftone
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the Mexican – American War, but it sparked a series of lynchings of Mexicans and subsequent erasures, and long-lasting traumas. This pattern of state-sanctioned violence committed towards communit...
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